When I was little, I was kind of .... obsessive about Superman. I mean ( Read more... )

Not too much I'm actually doing lately, so I'll tell you about things I've watched instead.

• Sometime in the nebulous depths of last week, windbourne and I watched Revengers Tragedy, starring Doctor Who's Christopher Eccleston, the always fabulous Eddie Izzard, and Derek Jacobi, and directed by the guy who made Repo Man. The perfect movie if you want to see ( Read more... )

I saw a TV ad for House of Wax the other night, and it looked pleasantly scary, so I thought I'd give it a try when it opened tonight. (Even though Paris Hilton is in it.) I've never seen the original, so I wasn't worried about them ruining it for me, or anything.

Dark Castle's previous remakes, House on Haunted Hill and Thirteen Ghosts, were ( Read more... )

Just got back from The End's Deck the Hall Ball. Pretty damn entertaining. At this point, there are several events I really should go back and write about, but for once I think I'll go ahead and get this down while it's still fresh in my head.
Due to horrendous traffic, terrible rain, some poor last-minute ( Read more... )

Many thanks to cithra, who had some nice things to say about my book, Counting from Ten. Glad you liked it.

So yesterday I used my new library card to -- get this -- check out an actual book. Yeah ( Read more... )

Over in horror_films, vegandreamboat wrote:
in your opinion what are the horror films that changed the genre..not necessarily your favorites but the ones that reinvited horror.
To which I responded:
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Oooh, what a good question. I'd go with:
The Haunting (1963) -- the ( Read more... )

Saw House of 1000 Corpses today. Thought it was pretty terrible. No real characters, dialogue, plot, logic, anything. Nor was it particularly scary. It desperately wants to be Texas Chainsaw Massacre when it grows up, but it's not even in the ballpark.
I have to admit it was fun to look at -- every single frame of the ( Read more... )

As I'm sure many of you know, I'm a great big Stephen King fanboy. Adore his stuff. Hate to ever say a bad word about him.
However.
I've now watched parts one and two of Rose Red.
I was really expecting a little something more than an homage to Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House.
"Homage," of course, being an Old French word for "blatant ( Read more... )

I must be getting old.
Today's only planned Unit of Productivity was to drop off some flyers for the reading at The Mercuryand since I couldn't do that before 9pm, and since I did so well writing ( Read more... )